The Message Bible MSG
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23 "If only my words were written in a book -
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“Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
24 better yet, chiseled in stone!
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that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!
25 Still, I know that God lives - the One who gives me back my life - and eventually he'll take his stand on earth.
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I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
26 And I'll see him - even though I get skinned alive! -
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And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
27 see God myself, with my very own eyes. Oh, how I long for that day!
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I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
28 "If you're thinking, 'How can we get through to him, get him to see that his trouble is all his own fault?'
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“If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him, ’
29 Forget it. Start worrying about yourselves. Worry about your own sins and God's coming judgment, for judgment is most certainly on the way."
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you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment. ”
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